All Films

Wind up Ghazal

2022 • 4 min

In Dancing Ghazal, Ghazal is the last remaining wind-up ballerina of the toy shop. One day, a little girl searching for a birthday present enters her world, hoping to take her to her own world. But will she be able to leave hers?

The Sparrow is Free

2021 • 14 min • United Kingdom

Through a window into the life of the filmmaker's grandmother, Kohandel's short interview-film explores gender roles in early 20th-century Iran. As a young girl, marriage to her older cousin leads to years of control and frustration. Rebelling against her husband, she eventually relocates to France with her sons, building a new life. As she voices her own story, the film weaves her experiences together into a broader narrative of self-determination. She carves out her independence in suburban Paris and finds comfort in the everyday. A simple kind of happiness follows, the sparrow is free.

Just Another Year

2020 • 6 min • United Kingdom

Just another year documents how a mother and a daughter celebrated Norooz at home, not very differently from the previous years. As they aren’t surrounded by an Iranian community, some of the rituals such as jumping over fire have been adapted to living in a flat. The film looks at the small but important domestic gestures that constitute the setting of the Haft-Sin table, embracing this poetical approach to life which is performed again every spring.

A Departure

2025 • 2 min • United Kingdom

A Departure begins with a question: how do we navigate disappearing rivers, seas, and sources - bodies of water endangered by neo-colonial extraction? The film responds to the call of Sohrab Sepehri’s poem Beyond the Seas and invites viewers to build their own paper boat.

The Toxic Mask

• 8 min • United States of America

A man with a trauma-filled past finally reaches his breaking point...

Impressions

2025 • 4 min

A seed is planted and it grows to no end, sculpted by time and light. Nico Listi’s fifth short film.

A brief walk

2024 • 1 min

Moments of summer break, focused on time and memory. A companion piece to Branches.

Guerilla

2024 • 1 min

A young boy takes a nap.

Branches

2024 • 1 min

A year of life, light, and thought overlapping as memories. Nico Listi’s first solo experimental short.

Working men

2025 • 1 min

Men hard at work.

Offline

2025 • 4 min • Germany

Clickbait-Youtuber RuinRunner enters an abandoned bunker for a videoblog, but ends up trapping himself for multiple days

Nonostante tutto

2025 • 10 min

Freely inspired by the play "Caso, Mai - The unpredictable virtue of dignity" by Simone Gurany, Despite Everything recounts the drama experienced by those who, due to an illness or an accident, find themselves prisoners of their own body. Massimiliano and Giuseppe share the same room, one wants to live and the other doesn't, but perhaps there are bigger problems to solve, there's a pencil to pick up on the floor and neither of them can get out of bed.

Thoughts & Prayers

2025 • 11 min

In this dry absurdist comedy one millennial man’s life starts spiraling after an unexpected visit from two licensing inspectors.

Daddy Daze

2025 • 12 min

A stay-at-home dad, Darrel, spends an eventful day juggling his infant son, Teli, and his stern, old-school father, Onwu, as he tries to resolve a family issue. They clash over their opposing approaches to fatherhood.

Treu

2025 • 15 min • Germany

A woman believes she is trapped in a stranger's apartment, guarded by an older man she thinks has imprisoned her. As she finally escapes, the claustrophobic thriller transforms into an intense action-packed chase, unraveling a new mystery. Gradually, the true story of the woman and her supposed pursuer unfolds, evolving into a touching love story.

There Is Something In The Attic

2025 • 1 min

An entity moves through the dark rooms of an Attic.

The reflection on the sand

2025 • 16 min • Spain

The rocks, sculpted by sea and wind, stand resilient, displaying the scars of the fragments torn away. From that beach, a young Sahrawi embarks on a mental journey to his last visit to the camps. The places, the rituals, the history, and the time make his voice merge with the memories of his mother's stories, showing a deep contrast between the situation in the recent past and the present.

Mail

2013 • 10 min

A reflection on an ancient act. A letter from the ephemeral pinhole world is sent, written, and received. Shot with a homemade pinhole camera onto commercial emulsion.

Mountain Home

2010 • 10 min

A vision of the mountains in which I live, both gentle and harsh, domestic and wild, populated and not. Shot on a homemade pinhole camera. Edited initially in 2007, then finished and printed in 2010.

Ski

2025 • 10 min

Downhill skiing has been a big part of my life both growing up and as a parent; whatever problems it raises (and there are some!), the way in which it facilitates being in the mountains in the winter as a joyous immersion in beauty, friendship, athleticism, and family is profound. This film captures something of my experience of skiing as witnessed through a homemade camera built for making it.

The Body on Stage

2025 • 16 min

A documentary made by students, for students

DnhMuzic: My Music, My Journey

2025 • 10 min

Phoenix Neo-Hop Artist DnhMuzic shares the heart spaces that music, human connection, and perseverance hold for him as a Black artist.

Dracula Citgo

2024 • 11 min

While taking a break from working on his essay an off-duty gas station attendant unsuccessfully tries to con some barbie dolls into thinking he is dracula

It Will

2024 • 15 min • United States of America

a tv goes to hell